A Sustainable Train of Thought

Well, a lot of little pixels at least…

My predictions (hopes) for 2007 as seen on TreeHugger.com.

(True, my name’s appeared on TreeHugger before, but this instance uses a bigger font, incorporating more pixels.)

It was difficult to choose from so many options. For example, SUN has a bunch of interesting products out that address power consumption, and in the larger IT industry there’s the general acceptance that power is now a major issue; there was the general awakening of people to the climate crisis, and a simultaneous trend of “it’s cool to care” in relation to the environment; and of course there were rumblings in the political arena from California to Great Britain to hundreds of US mayors with regards to the dangers of climate change and the long-term economic and strategic opportunities and risks it poses.

So many things…and that in itself is a great thing: I’d rather there be too much to talk about than too little.

Still, we can always do better. And we need to do better.

So let’s make 2007 the year of the sustainability change-agents. How’s this for a resolution: incorporate one environmentally-sustainable component in one project you work on this year. After you’ve done that, make it two in two. After that…you get the idea.

PS: Happy New Year!